Google Planning to Rename ‘Android TV’ to ‘Google TV’: Report

Sep. 14, 2020

Google’s upcoming‘Sabrina’ streaming donglehaspopped up in multiple leaksover the past few months, revealing some of its key details. Now,Android Policefounder, Artem Russakovskii, has revealed a listing on the internal system of US retailer, Target, which seems to refer to the same device as ‘Google Chromecast with Google TV‘.

While the listing seems to confirm a $50 price-tag for the upcoming device, the more interesting aspect is its name, which dropped ‘Android TV‘ in favor of ‘Google TV’. If accurate, this could be somewhat of a confirmation of an earlierreportfrom9to5Googlewhich claimed thatGoogle is planning to revert the name of its smart TV platform from Android TV to Google TV.

Meanwhile, the Target listing also seemingly reveals that Google is planning to retain theChromecastbranding for its upcoming streaming dongle, even though it will be a completely new device with no apparent relation to any of the existing Chromecast devices. Russakovskii also mentions that the device will reportedly come in Rock Candy, Summer Melon and Summer Blue colors, but there’s doesn’t seem to be any more information about it as of now.

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